Light Interaction with Cluster Chiral Nanostructures by High-Order Bessel Beam

Abstract

Interactions between cluster chiral nanoparticles and a high-order Bessel beam (HOBB) with arbitrary illuminations are investigated. The generalized Lorenz–Mie theory (GLMT) is applied to derive the expansions of HOBB. Based on the additional theorem, multiple scattering results of cluster chiral nanoparticles are obtained by taking into account the tangential continuous boundary conditions. The present theory and codes proved to be effective when confronted with the simulations obtained from the Computer Simulation Technology (CST) software. Numerical results concerning the effects of beam order, beam conical angle, incident angles, beam polarization state, the chirality, and the material loss on the scattering of various types of aggregated chiral particles are displayed in detail, including the linearly chiral sphere chain, the chiral cube array, and the complex models composed of aggregated chiral spheres. This study may provide critical support to analytically understand the optical scattering characteristics with aggregated chiral particles of complex shapes, and may find important applications in manipulating collective chiral particles.

Keywords

• multiple scattering
• collective chiral particles
• high-order Bessel beam
• spherical vector wave functions